Its primary mission is to bring into active association youth groups and young humanist individuals throughout the world interested in promoting humanism, as is described in the IHEU Amsterdam Declaration 2002.

These activities empower its members to achieve their individual, local and regional goals.

The African Working Group is mainly organised in East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, etc.)

The Fourth Annual IHEYO East African Regional Working Group Meeting was held in Kigali on 26–28 August 2015.

[4] The American Working group is the newest and launched in Washington DC in May 2015 at the Future of Ethical Societies Annual conference.

The Working Group has members in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines.

Its concept was based on the British student federation AHS's Non-Prophet Week.